Sean Capener

Straddling two eras of intellectual history, my research and teaching examines legacies of medieval Christian moral theology and jurisprudence and highlights problems these legacies pose for modern philosophical approaches to issues of race, religion, and political economy. I am also interested in philosophical archaeology—a concept-metaphor employed by Immanuel Kant, Michel Foucault, Sylvia Wynter, and Giorgio Agamben—and other internal criticisms of philosophy as a literary genre and mode of inquiry. I am currently writing a monograph on medieval and modern treatments of the idea that 'time is money,' and on the role of Atlantic slavery in the dissociation of indebtedness and unfreedom in modern theology, philosophy, and political economy.